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by bbor 7mo ago
It warms my heart that there's basically a 0% chance that they ever approach this camp's viewpoint based on the Herculean effort it took to switch over to a slightly more modern frontend a few years back. I'm glad you don&#x2
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by bbor 7mo ago
It is true that they have a particularly robust, distributed backup system that can/has come in handy, but FWIW the timing matters to them . English Wikipedia receives ~2 edits per second, or 172,800 per day. Many of them are surely m
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by bbor 8mo ago
Wasn't this the same guy that responded with a shrug to thousands of malware packages on their vibe-repo? I'd say an OpenAI signing bonus is more than enough of a reward to give up that leaky ship!
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by bbor 8mo ago
Well they have an illegal monopoly over display ads that they defended with a moat of money when FB tried to butt in, so that's an example of them being not great to rely on.
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by bbor 8mo ago
Ok well hopefully the new kids just grit their teeth and ignore the changing conditions, then? Surely once we inform them that they should be better people they'll snap out of having personal failings!
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by bbor 8mo ago
You seem like a great professor(/“junior baby mini instructor who no one should respect”, knowing American academic titles…). Though as someone whose been on the other end of the podium a bit more recently, I will point out the maybe-o
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by bbor 9mo ago
I mean, “equivalent” is an understatement! There’s a reason Claude Code costs less than hiring a full time software engineer…
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by bbor 9mo ago
Don't be naive -- if I don't make the Torment Nexus, someone else will ;)
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by bbor 9mo ago
That is its origin, not its nature. Shareholders do not a community make :)
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by bbor 9mo ago
Legality is not morality. These laws in particular happen to not only be harmful, but also in direct opposition to the ostensible spirit of this board
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by bbor 9mo ago
I love random folk etymologies, especially when they posit sinister conspiracies along the way -- thanks for the concise correction. Wikipedia confirms on both counts: According to Ek, the company's title was initially misheard fro
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by bbor 9mo ago
If I wasn't on Anna's side before, I sure am now. A) You're quite the poet! B) We should all be on Anna's side if we're to live up this board's name even a little bit: https://archive.org&#
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by bbor 9mo ago
Great article, thanks for sharing! Lang is a gem, and definitely my fave celebrity Origami artist (what a world). He has a website with both his art and scientific work, for anyone who's curious for more: https://langorigami
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by bbor 9mo ago
A) I'm assuming you meant "TBH", but please correct me if I have an acronym to learn. B) Hacker news is crazy -- I didn't expect to spawn a thread that would get responses from actual board members, ex- or otherwise! I&#
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by bbor 9mo ago
...ok I guess I grant that technically the leader of the board is not the board itself, but that feels a bit pedantic. A prime minister/speaker of the house/etc. isn't the unitary executive of that chamber wielding absolute p
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by bbor 9mo ago
It honestly blows my mind that some people read about a national government killing thousands of protestors in the span of a few days amid a backdrop of decades of authoritarian repression and think "meh, NBD, other countries have done
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by bbor 9mo ago
Wow, I didn't know you got a spot on the board, that's a great choice on their part! Thanks for giving your time. Yes, I was talking about Wages -- the day-to-day is surely complex, but I'm sure you'd agree that the pres
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by bbor 9mo ago
democratic states like Iran ...whelp, this thread is gonna get shut down. Everyone was being reasonable, but all it takes is one person to say some out-of-pocket shit like "the country currently massacring protestors is the re
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by bbor 9mo ago
that is its always Iran/China bad and at the same time they Kidnap a foreign leader and its all wow look how great we are. I mean... I guess it depends on what you consider "the media"? I certainly don't consume
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by bbor 9mo ago
And they come in a variety of bindingness. I didn’t notice any details in this link which makes me think this is mostly a handshake deal, but it wouldn’t be at all unusual for there to be some auditing mechanisms on a quarterly/yearly
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by bbor 9mo ago
For anyone who isn’t aware/remembering, this is certainly made with the security of PyPi in mind, python’s main package repository. NPM is the other major source of issues (congrats for now, `cargo`!), and TIL that NPM is A) a for-prof
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by bbor 9mo ago
And before someone comes in to correct: yes, we're monkeys. No, the taxonomists don't know any better! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey
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by bbor 9mo ago
Cracks me up that OP is trying Anna's Archive before Wikidata, NGL! Both great sources, though. I recently (a year ago... wow) dipped my toe into the world of library science through Wikidata, and was shocked at just how complex it is.
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by bbor 9mo ago
1. They’re not talking about any lucrative activity — the primary worry is longterm sexual harassment via stalking. 2. Why outlaw bombs if criminals have obtained them anyway? You’re just arguing against he concept of laws at this point. 3.
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by bbor 9mo ago
Wow — that is probably the most suspicious set of three details ever shared on this forum. Thank you for enlightening us!
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by bbor 9mo ago
Just glancing at it: 1. That repo is based on 250+ .go files and stores stuff as git blobs, which is obviously a much more involved, collaboration-focused approach than this tool's 1 .sh file and human-readable markdown files. 2. `tk`
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by bbor 9mo ago
Oh my lord it's written in bash. That's incredible. Well done! It's good to feel like the new kid sometimes as I approach 30 and ossify technically -- I'm sure this will develop a healthy fanbase of senior engineers, if
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by bbor 9mo ago
...huh? Your takeaway from my comment was that I'm pro DEI, or that I intended my comment to be related to DEI in some way? I can't quite tell if you're trying to support or attack that concept/acronym/cultural flas
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by bbor 9mo ago
I love the design and the underlying message, but I just have to engage on the three examples of "radical monopolies". Most pressingly, I don't think any of the three show an example like that of the automobile, whose ubiqu
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by bbor 9mo ago
Reminds me of on interaction a few months ago where I mentioned the left-right spectrum in passing and someone accused me of making HN a worse place, only to call me a "snowflake" in their very next response! As usual, "thing

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